Tuesday, December 18, 2012

How did Halle Berry prepare for the sex scene in "Monster's Ball" (2001)?

“
The first thing I had to really become
comfortable doing was submitting to that moment. On paper it really read
like what you saw and that was frightening at first because I wondered
how I would ever be uninhibited enough to pull that off. I was very
cerebral at first. Once I decided to succumb to the character and really
service her and not think about what I would be looking like, and once I
didn’t care about that it became really easy because I left all those
inhibitions at the door. I thought I would just do it in a way that
expressed she needed that (sex) like she needed the air to breathe and I
thought if I could just capture that desperation and that need and not
care what I look like, I thought I would be able to do the scene justice
because it was written very raw and very animalistic and very painful,
at the same time very beautiful and satisfying, so that’s the way I
approached it.
”
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